This class was a roller coaster. . . not a crazy one where you would
find adrenaline junkies, but one that speeds up, slows down, makes you
worried but also makes you excited: the class was definitely rolling. I
enjoyed the class overall but there were moments where I did not and was
very frustrated. I enjoyed learning how to code because it’s something
I’ve been meaning to learn for a few years and boy did I learn
somethings. . .
Whether I agree with your assessment or not, I
will schedule a time for us to discuss your self-assessment. In this
discussion, we will come to an agreement regarding your final grade
reflecting the criteria in the Course
Overview and as outlined below.
Please give me a bulleted/numbered list of each task you were asked to do for this course. Where relevant, please also link the html version of the file representing each task, in your own repos, to the bulleted entry for that task.
Please let me know how well you feel you accomplished your tasks, in a general sense. What do you feel you did the best, and what did you do the least well? What was the hardest part for you? Did your work/understanding/ease improve over the course of the semester?
Overall I did mostly well, all but 1 homework/peer commentary was submitted late, my code improved greatly as the semester continued. I read all modules before their respective seminar date; although I was not able to understand all of the content in the modules before the class, after our meetings I had a better idea of the goals, purposes, and relevance of the modules I had trouble with. I did the homeworks well, there is improvement in my code comments and I tried my absolute hardest in peer comments to help others out, even when I was not confident in my code I gave meaningful suggestions to help my peers. Most of my homework code was similar to the solutions but I was not confident with Homework 4(I did okay, but the modules/homework was not clicking for me until a few weeks after), but otherwise my work and understanding of topics was solid. I showed improvement in my ability to use Git and Rstudio and became more confident since the first Commit & Push. The group vignette was solid and well done but I agree with the critique which states we could have benefited by adding some form of analyses. Replication was done well and I tried my best to use what I learned from the course including peer comments, the modules, and homeworks.
This course has deepened my understanding of statistics by going into the specifics of statistical tests, techniques,analyses, and explanations. I am more confident in explaining how statistics is used after this class. Before I would learn how to do certain tests, be given a few numbers to perform the statistics on a calculator or follow a formula, but after having to code statistics on actual data sets, I understand how each statistic we learned works, when to use them, and how they can be interpreted for papers. In the project design aspect of the course, I have gained much from my novice beginnings. I’ve learned about coding in R, how to build an html file, and the complexity of coordinating/designing on a computer. This is a class I am glad I took and I plan to use this experience for the future, both near and far.
Please name at least three things you feel you learned in this course.
The Vignette project provided me with a different but not unwanted
experience of teamwork. I am used to working together in the same room
as others and talking to them and reviewing each others work as we
continue the assignment. This was different because we were all working
separately and reconvening only to start the next part of the project.
At first, it felt less like teamwork and more like an assembly line, but
I was able to adapt, and it became more collaborative. Although it was
uncomfortable at first, I am glad I was able to experience this form of
teamwork because sometimes this form may be what is available. Peer
commentary also taught me how to look deeper into peoples’ works; Since
I was learning to code, I couldn’t provide concrete “this is
right/wrong” comments, I had to look into each line of code and give
suggestions based of the Modules, testing their code, comparing it to my
own work, and reading the homework instructions over and over. Peer
commentary taught me how to meticulously inspect, edit, comment, and
internalize/revise my work and others’, whether it is code or not.
The Peer Commentary process and the Group Project were essential
factors of my success in the class. It made me more confident in my
statistics and my code as well as prevented me from straying from the
correct answer. All my peers and their comments were extremely helpful
with understanding the homeworks and the modules. The group project also
helped me learn more formatting and code. Ritika, Paige, Sofia, and
Reese showed me some new/efficient code and I learned that there were
somethings they didn’t know and was able to teach them. It made me feel
more confident and comfortable being in the class and boosted my drive
to work hard and succeed.
This experience has shown me that coding is difficult and frustrating
and can put you in a bad mood. But it’s amazing being able to code and
have a virtually endless possibility of outputs: images, numbers, plots,
photos analyses, etc. If I were to start over, I would make a different
vignette and learn/teach others about AI and making. I would also love
to make my own package. I do regret my lack of code comments at the
beginning of the year and would like to fix them. Additionally, we
focused much on the statistics portion but I would have liked to
dedicate some of my time to learn about the different formatting options
and methods of prettifying the .html files because the theme changes but
the overall look is the same and became boring to look at.